Bishopsgate police station

The Bishopsgate police station is a Metropolitan Police Service police station located on Bishopsgate in the East End of London in England. The first police station opened in 1866, and, in 1888, the prostitute Catherine Eddowes was brought to the police station for public drunkenness; she bribed a policeman to let her out of the station in the middle of the night, only to be murdered by Jack the Ripper shortly after. It was rebuilt in the 1930s, and it took a direct bomb hit in September 1940 during "The Blitz" of World War II.